Thomas Harding The Einstein Vendetta

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*Longlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026* From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake comes a gripping true story of murder, war and injustice in Nazi-occupied Florence 'I absolutely devoured The Einstein Vendetta ' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Thomas Harding is a researcher of the first rank ' DAILY EXPRESS 'Harding evokes time and place beautifully , while paying forensic attention to detail . The result is a slow burn of cliff-hangers to keep the pages turning ’ SPECTATOR ' The Einstein Vendetta will tug at your heartstrings and prompt righteous outrage ' TELEGRAPH ------ TUSCANY, 1944. German soldiers arrive at a villa on the outskirts of Florence to interrogate the cousin of the world's most famous scientist. Hours later, innocent civilians are dead and the troops have vanished. Weaving together first-hand testimony, unpublished material and original interviews, Thomas Harding tells a dramatic story of vengeance - and of one family's personal torment - as Nazi forces made a last brutal stand ahead of impending Allied liberation.

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